Silence vs sound

[ELisabeth85]

Do you find that you write better in complete silence or need some sound? For me i need noise, it would be un natural for my house to be silent because normally when it is silent my mind starts to wonder lol but it is the same with reading , i need the tv on....

 

[Bianca_Sommerland]

Do you find that you write better in complete silence or need some sound? For me i need noise, it would be un natural for my house to be silent because normally when it is silent my mind starts to wonder lol but it is the same with reading , i need the tv on....

Depends on the scene. Most of the time I've got music on, but when silence fits the mood better I turn everything off.

Never have the TV on. Watch youtube sometimes before I write though.

 

[Old_Blue]

Quiet!

Do you find that you write better in complete silence or need some sound? For me i need noise, it would be un natural for my house to be silent because normally when it is silent my mind starts to wonder lol but it is the same with reading , i need the tv on....

I need peace, solitude and above all quiet. Probably why I don't produce many stories.

 

[3113]

Ha! I need noise. I need to go to coffee houses with people, or have the television on or be listening to music. But then when I read or write, I tune everything out. So, I guess I'm saying that I need to have the noise to tune it out.

If I can't tune it out, then I'm not in writing mode and whether there is sound or silence, writing ain't gonna happen.

 

[sr71plt]

I may start off with sound--something in the line of elevator music and it has to be instrumental; I'm a singer, so any vocals are distracting--but I quickly tune the music out as I get enveloped by the writing, and it's usually silent when I'm done.

 

[ELisabeth85]

i am the same way you are 3113

 

[shewantsmore]

I think both are good at different times,all depends on my mood at the time

 

[Stella_Omega]

Ha! I need noise. I need to go to coffee houses with people, or have the television on or be listening to music. But then when I read or write, I tune everything out. So, I guess I'm saying that I need to have the noise to tune it out.

If I can't tune it out, then I'm not in writing mode and whether there is sound or silence, writing ain't gonna happen.

I'm right with you-- or, I should be.

Why am I not right with you?

 

[jomar]

Mostly quiet for me.

 

[vrosej10]

I like music, particularly something I can sing along to to write fiction, cool jazz for non-fiction and essays and silence for poetry (I need to hear the rhythm of the words).

 

[Isid]

silence

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Music distracts me when I am trying to write. I have to turn it off. I am sure that people talking around me would have the same effect, but I'm never around people when I am at a computer, so I have no idea.

 

[ExoMani]

Quite.

 

[Handley_Page]

The silence of an undiscovered tomb.
Music only when taking a break.

 

[_Lynn_]

The only time I like silence is when I sleep.

 

[cloudy]

The only time I like silence is when I sleep.

...and I can't sleep if it's quiet. At my mom's it's so damned silent that your ears start ringing with it. *shudder*

That's a relatively recent development, though. I come from a huge extended family where everyone talks at once, yet we still manage to hear each other. We're boisterous because if you're quiet, you won't get noticed in the crowd...and we're like that from first thing in the morning until bedtime - at least when we're all together, anyway.

I have to have a box fan, or the radio or something on all the time. When it's too quiet, I get creeped out.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Personally, I like some background music, but not too loud. The absolutely worst thing is to have a telephone ringing, especially because I am expected to answer it for everybody in the house.

I have done some pretty good writing out in a coffee shop or a mall food court or some other place where there are people around but they ignore me.

 

[penandpaper]

I like music; however, I have to play the same song over and over and over. Check my iTunes top 10 and they've each been played a couple hundred times. I like it because it still creates a mood, but fades into the background. If a different song comes on, I find myself listening to the lyrics or complexities of the son rather than concentrating on the task at hand.

 

[sadangel]

I need some kind of background noise. Something low, and not interfering though. Often, I'll have Whiskey Lullaby playing in the background when I start writing and then let the CD play everything else. Mostly Alison Krauss when I am writing. No idea why.

ETA: When sleeping, I need the fan on high for the white noise. I can't sleep in total silence. Never could.